Hi Edensan,

that's a good question. It really depends on exactly how you want the shop to act when it's not "open for business". Should the products be visible at all? Should they be visible but no "add to cart" functions? Or just remove all links to cart and checkout? Maybe you also want some sort of banner appearing telling people that the shop is closed.

Can you describe in more detail how you want the "closed shop" to act?

Regards,
Stephen

Hi,
i was searching for other options to "close" the shop in a certain timeframe
into cataloge mode in a certain timeframe would be a verry good option for me.


gr Edwin

Ok, here's how to force VM into Catalog mode as a result of a Chameleon rule succeeding. This is clever! Note that this cannot work in MetaMod, only in Chameleon.

Put this into the PHP box in the Succeed Action in a rule:

if (!class_exists( 'VmConfig' )) require(JPATH_ROOT.'/administrator/components/com_virtuemart/helpers/config.php');
VmConfig::loadConfig();
$rProperty = new ReflectionProperty("VmConfig", '_jpConfig');
$rProperty->setAccessible(true);
$config = $rProperty->getValue();
$config->_params['use_as_catalog'] = 1;

Of course, the rest of the rule needs to be detecting the right time span as well. So you could use the following PHP in the PHP box on the main tab (not the one in the Succeed action) :

if ($core_genius->inTimeSpan("fri 14:00 - mon 08:00")) return false; // rule fails during these times, hence not in catalog mode
else return true; // rule succeeds outside of those times, hence set to catalog mode


So put those 2 sets of things into 1 Chameleon rule, name it, save it, and hey presto you have Catalog mode enabled when not between fri 14:00 and mon 08:00.

Best regards,
Stephen